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Kim Stanley Robinson on Fixing the Future

Global warming, run away capitalism, ecosystem co…

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02/02/2018

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Global warming, run away capitalism, ecosystem collapse. Kim Stanley Robinson's futures aren't always happy, but they're grounded in hard science, and we might have to start thinking about them seriously for our own sake.

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